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Not just LGBT issues

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By David Briggs, Writer, Association of Religion Data Archives In 2005, two congregations left the Presbyterian Church (USA) In 2006, three churches departed. But the floodgates have lifted since then as decades-old tensions between liberals and conservatives have reached breaking points.After a 2011 decision allowing gay ordinations, 270 congregations left in 2012 and 2013. And church analysts…

Alban Institute, a resource for mainline institutions, to shutter

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By Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) As mainline Protestant denominations continue decades of decline, one of the main institutions helping educate its leaders announced Wednesday (March 19) that it will shut its doors. Since it was founded four decades ago, the Virginia-based Alban Institute has guided mostly mainline congregations through consulting and publishing. Its founder and…

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